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Subject: Re: Would the authors of each program tell us what processor to use?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 22:57:18 02/16/00

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On February 16, 2000 at 21:24:14, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello Tom,
>Actually I admit that I am exagerating but I was only trying to make the point
>that it is possible that this subject could be of interest to some.  I think the
>K6-3-450 is about as fast as a PIII-550 for Rebel.
>Jim Walker

Mmm. This isn't a big surprise to me. In fact, I think that if you found a way
to run a regular Pentium at 450MHz, it would also be as fast as a 550MHz PIII.

The "catch," of course, is that you can get an 800MHz PIII, whereas you'll have
a hard time finding a K6-3 that runs faster than 450MHz.

-Tom



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